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Barbara Hammer: Mediated Sensuality

still from Barbara Hammer's Vital Signs
Cinema
May
23
7 PM

Event Details

Date & Time:

Thu May 23, 2019
7 PM

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Open to the public

Details:

Since the late 1960s, lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer has restlessly challenged the limits of the visible, pushing against the formal, social, and sexual boundaries of cinema. This program of films (including newly restored prints) showcases Hammer’s ability to translate embodied experience through expressive techniques of montage, superimposition and animation. Includes Dyketactics (1974), Sync Touch (1981), Vital Signs (1991), and others. Curated by KJ Relth and Mark Toscano.

In person: UCLA Film & Television Archive programmer and curator KJ Relth

 

Dyketactics (1974)

16mm, color, 4 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Double Strength (1978)

16mm, color, 15 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

No No Nooky TV. (1987)

16mm, color, 12 min.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive.

Sync Touch (1981)

16mm, color, 10 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Vital Signs (1991)

16mm, b/w & color, 10 min.

New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Women I Love (1976)

16mm, color, 23 min.

Restored by Electronic Arts Intermix and the Academy Film Archive through the National Film Preservation Foundation's Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.

Evidentiary Bodies (2018)

Digital, color, 10 min.

Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Total running time: 84 min.

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu